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Ohio’s gubernatorial campaign has kicked into gear, and so has PolitiFact with its weird partisan takes. Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was tagged as “Mostly False” for an ad against his Democrat opponent that said that in 2020, “Amy Acton called off Ohio’s election at the last minute.” She did as Ohio's health director. That's true. But Gov. Mike DeWine claimed it was his call, so it's…

On the very last day of April, PolitiFact finally dared to upset their liberal donors and found a Democrat to be “Mostly False” for the first time in 2026. The day before brought another shocker: PolitiFact rated a Trump claim as "Mostly True," the first rating on the True side since October 2024.

We're almost to the end of April, and the liberals at PolitiFact have still not found one single Democrat utterance that is tagged "Mostly False" or worse in 2026. Instead, they're rushing to defense of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in the aftermath of the Correspondents Dinner shooting.

PolitiFact’s unwillingness to give Republicans “true” ratings for true statements continued on Monday when Samantha Putterman only gave Rep. Brandon Gill a “half true” rating for his true claim that “The Dignity Act is mass amnesty.”

Is it true that President Trump’s threats to hit Iranian power plants constituted a potential war crime? According to PolitiFact’s Louis Jacobson, that depends on what day of the week it is. On April 7, Jacobson penned a piece that suggested Fox News’s Jesse Watters was probably correct in saying they would not be given historical precedents in places like Iraq, but Jacobson still refused to…

On "International Fact Checking Day," we discuss how PolitiFact can't find any Democrats saying false things with Matthew Hoy, author of the new book Fact-Checking Frauds: How Fact-Checkers Distract, Deceive, and Distort Our Politics. What tactics do they use? There's obvious selection bias -- in targets, in fact claims, and in expert testimony.

PolitiFact was demoralized by the idea that Donald Trump was re-elected in 2024, but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped rigging their “fact checking” apparatus against the Republicans. What’s truly amazing about the first quarter of 2026 is that the number of occasions they have rated Democrats as “Mostly False” or worse is at zero.

When a military expert’s opinion is different than a politician’s, how are fact-checkers like PolitiFact supposed to adjudicate the politician’s claim? If a Friday article by Zoe Weyand is anything to go by, the answer is not at all, or at least if the politician is Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. However, Weyand's standard for giving Warren a “true” rating for a recent claim she made about…

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer has repeatedly claimed that the SAVE America Act that makes voter ID mandatory is "Jim Crow 2.0." PolitiFact doesn't find that outrageous smear worth a "fact check," just as it failed to check when President Biden repeatedly asserted it. Instead, they nitpicked a mathematical claim about voter registration.

There might be no more recklessly axe-throwing Democrat partisan in the Congress than Sen. Chris Murphy. But PolitiFact gave him a "Mostly True" rating for this claim on Sunday's Face the Nation on CBS: “There is no history … that shows an air campaign alone will result in positive regime change. In fact, there's not a single example of it in the entirety of American history.”

The State of the Union is typically an eye-opening exhibit of how dramatically slanted our "independent fact-checkers" are. An overview of the most prominent traditional national media sites reveals a total of 123 "fact checks" on the president to four for Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.). One might say that Trump spoke much longer, but all four of Spanberger's evaluated claims were ruled as…

The media have a remarkable tendency to take the minority position on an 80-20 issue, most recently on requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls. House Republicans have passed the “SAVE Act,” while Democrats have almost unanimously opposed it.  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) could only toss that old Biden smear out, that the SAVE Act was “Jim Crow 2.0.”

Quiz: How many times has Barack Obama been "fact checked" by PolitiFact since he left office in 2017? Seven. Trump has 11 so far in 2026. So you can guess they won't be "fact checking" his latest interview, where he smears the Republicans as uncaring about the rule or law, or democracy, or the truth.

On Monday, PolitiFact’s Maria Briceno and Amy Sherman teamed up to give President Trump and other critics of the Minneapolis unrest a “false” rating for their true claims that at least some of the agitators are paid.